HOLDEN EJ PREMIER

Egalitarian Australia showed reluctance to build its own prestige cars, instead getting them from Britain, the USA or Europe. Then in 1962 Ford added some frills to the slow selling Falcon and Holden went all the way with with a leathertrimmed, metallic painted EJ. That car was named the Premier and sold to toffee-noses who otherwise might have bought a Vauxhall Cresta or Ford Zodiac. To generate semi-serious money today, an EJ Prem needs its original leather to be intact or at worst feature a quality retrim to maintain the pretensions from 50+ years ago.